“Harlow would later write, "If monkeys have taught us anything, it's that you've got to learn how to love before you learn how to live.”

“It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry -- if they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere, how to keep on working until the work is done. Woody Allen famously declared that "eighty percent of success is showing up." NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) teaches kids how to show up again and again.”

“While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.”

“Knowledge can be a subtle curse. When we learn about the world, we also learn all the reasons why the world cannot be changed. We get used to our failures and imperfections. We become numb to the possibilities of something new”

“You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.From Imagine: How Creativity Works pg 23 (hardcover)”

“Suffering through his classes, the young Igor steeped himself in angst. He would later describe his childhood as 'a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.”

“...Prions violate most of biology's sacred rules. They are one of those annoying reminders of how much we don't know.”